"if we try to explain the design of an African village only using images of buildings or our impressions, it wouldn't be enough. we need more theoretical support and logical explanations, and we stand a chance of finding the roots and the origins of settlements more easily. for this reason, we need a system of language... for instance, we use the 'theory of fields' as it appears in mathematics and the physical sciences... if you want to create the space of a light field, we can select a certain topology of light... architecture, when understood as a 'field conditions' comes close to urban planning..." (hiroshi hara)

"the Mediatheque will be the archetype of an entirely new architecture. it will serve as a place inhabited by the two bodies of the contemporary human being, the body that contains the flow of electrons, and the primitive body responsive to nature." (toyo ito)